Posts Tagged ‘Bill Derman’

Episode 13: Water, Land, and Refugees in southern Africa

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Bill Derman (Anthropology, MSU) talks about his recent volume on Conflicts Over Land and Water in Africa (2007). He examines the role of government policies, local farmers, and chiefs in land reform in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Derman then shares his observations of refugee flows, and points to the sensitive position of researchers working in the changing political context of southern Africa.